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- The strange yet true bio of Lindsay Jones

- Awards for Lindsay Jones

- Articles about Lindsay Jones

- Critical acclaim for Lindsay Jones

- Lindsay Jones -Unique Music and Sound Design

the strange yet true bio of Lindsay Jones

Based in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, Lindsay Jones is a composer and sound designer for theatre, film and television. His music for film has been heard in film festivals around the world including Cannes, SXSW, Slamdance, Chicago Underground Film Festival and L.A. Latino Film Festival. His music for television has been featured on HBO, Bravo, The Sundance Channel, IFC, Telemundo, and will be featured soon on PBS. Most recently, Lindsay composed the score for the Oscar-winning short documentary A NOTE OF TRIUMPH: THE GOLDEN AGE OF NORMAN CORWIN for HBO Films.

Theatrically, he has composed and designed for world premieres of plays by Sam Shepard, David Mamet, A.R. Gurney, Terrence McNally, John Guare, Warren Leight, Lynn Nottage, David Lindsay-Abaire, Steven Dietz, Craig Lucas, Richard Dresser, Romulus Linney, Carey Perloff, Bruce Norris, Jamie Pachino and many others. Off-Broadway: DEDICATION OR THE STUFF OF DREAMS starring Nathan Lane and Marian Seldes, THE GOD OF HELL starring Tim Roth and Randy Quaid, TREASON, IN THE CONTINUUM, LUMINESCENCE DATING, STRING OF PEARLS, BOY, O JERUSALEM, BEAUTIFUL THING and CLOSET LAND. Regional credits include: Center Stage, Hartford Stage, South Coast Repertory, Alliance, Arena Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Goodman, American Conservatory Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kansas City Repertory, The Old Globe, Chicago Shakespeare, People’s Light And Theatre, Steppenwolf, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Geva, Repertory Theatre Of St. Louis, Court, Indiana Repertory, Meadow Brook, Milwaukee Repertory, American Players, Madison Repertory, Lookingglass, Human Race as well as many others. International credits include: productions in Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Scotland and The Royal Shakespeare Company of England.

Lindsay has received four Joseph Jefferson Awards and eleven nominations, 2 ASCAP Plus Awards, an Ovation Award, and a Chicago Stage Talk Award, as well as nominations for Barrymore Awards, Austin Critics Table Awards and NAACP Theatre Awards, and was the first (and, to date, only) sound designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award.

As a musician, he was the lead vocalist/bassist/main songwriter for The Nubile Thangs!, who recorded 3 albums for Full Size Hut Records, made several national TV appearances, and played over 300 shows in 40 states and Canada. As a writer, Lindsay has written both features and reviews for magazines such as Maximum Rock’n’Roll, Your Flesh, Tail Spins, Pure, CD Discovery, and wrote a weekly column of music reviews for ESP magazine for 5 years. He holds a BFA in Acting from the North Carolina School Of The Arts, and has taught acting and sound design at Northwestern University, The Chicago Academy For The Arts, The Latin School, Act One Studios and The National High School Institute. Lindsay is represented by Creative Artists Agency.

Awards for Lindsay Jones:

Watch Lindsay Jones accept the 2006 Joseph Jefferson Award for original music!

Watch Lindsay Jones accept the 2005 Joseph Jefferson Award for sound design!

Lindsay’s design for Killer Joe is named best sound design of 2005 for the Ovation Awards.

Lindsay’s design for Kid Simple is named best sound design of 2005 for Chicago Stage Talk Awards.

Lindsay’s design for Nightswim is nominated for best sound design of 2004 for the Austin Critics Table Awards.

Lindsay’s design for Julius Caesar is named best sound design of 2004 by Philadephia Weekly.

Lindsay’s design for Julius Caesar is nominated for best sound design of 2004 for the Barrymore Awards.

Lindsay is the first (and still only) sound designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award in 2001.

Articles about Lindsay Jones:

The Sonic Artist - Dramatics Magazine

Slapping Steak and Hammering Ketchup: The Sound Effects of Kid-Simple - Performink Magazine


The Philosophy of Sound: Designing a Rockin' Musical - Performink Magazine

Critical acclaim for Lindsay Jones:

”The original music and sound by Lindsay Jones… gets you right in the pit of the stomach. And it's a rush. This is not for the faint of heart because (as Christopher Guest says in "This is Spinal Tap") it's cranked up to "11". I simply wanted more of Jones's exciting, "take no prisoners" compositions.” - Aisle Say, Philadelphia, PA

"Kid Simple is technically ingenious. It’s the kind of sound design that makes you gasp in surprise and gaze in near childlike wonderment at the innovation that it must have taken to bring it to theatrical life." - Windy City Times, Chicago, IL

"…accompanied by the brilliantly calculated music and sound effects of Lindsay Jones." - Wall Street Journal, NYC, NY

"Another offstage star of the show is Lindsay Jones, the production's sound designer. Using amplified typewriter noises, the blare of a siren and the weird, unearthly growlings of the strange animals that are supposed to be out there infiltrating the industrial compound, he amplifies and immeasurably adds to the enjoyment of the play." – Chicago Tribune, Chicago, IL

"The introductory music, a slow and rhythmically lopsided reel for fiddle by Lindsay Jones, projects the same ominous inklings of the traditional being derailed." - New York Times, NYC, NY

"the sound design by Lindsay Jones is a knockout throughout …" - City Paper, Philadelphia, PA

"Add music and sound by Lindsay Jones that, though often seat-shaking loud, is generally pitched perfectly to the action " - Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, PA

"Lindsay Jones produces a rich and varied soundscape, summoning a natural world and a dream world with equal ease and effectiveness." - Austin Chronicle, Austin, TX

"Lindsay Jones' electrifying sound and original music." - Philadelphia Weekly, Philadelphia, PA